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TIL An Ubber Driver With A Concealed Handgun Stopped A Mass Shooting In Chicago.

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kOPN1 TIL that two French inventors who had never heard of each other before presented nearly identical techniques for producing color photographs on the same day in 1869 to the French Society for Photography.
DQAkP TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.
pYBNO TIL Alaska's coastline is so large (6,640 miles) it borders 3 different seas. The Beaufort Sea, The Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea.
V714 TIL that there’s a strong correlation between people who buy bird seed and people who usually pay their debts. Inversely, people who buy chrome accessories for their car tend to not pay their debts in full.
awE6Z TIL Warren Buffett suggested Prop 13 be repealed or changed to balance the state budget. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, believing that such an act would be inadvisable politically & could end his gubernatorial career, said, "I told Warren that if he mentions Prop. 13 again he has to do 500 sit-ups."